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There are things money can't buy: integrity, honor, discipline.
Unfortunately for Seymour Herson, he's got a more pressing matter at hand: surviving eighth grade. He's dead last in just about everything at Glendale, the Manhattan private school his parents are working so hard to keep him in. His grades are so low a C warrants a celebration. His athletic skill is limited to how much chocolate milk he can drink in one sitting.
You'd think someone...
24) 10,000 bones
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On the planet Brink, calcium is cash. The element's scarcity led the world's government to declare it the official currency. In the decades since, the governments of other colonized worlds have suppressed shipments of calcium in order to maintain favorable exchange rates, while Brink's Commerce Board has struggled to negotiate importation quotas to keep the population alive and growing. Taryn Dare is a Collections Agent, a specialized detective tasked...
27) Playboy pilot
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Money or love. Which would you choose? Kendall needed to go far away to think it through. She strikes up a heated conversation with Carter in the airport lounge. She thought she'd never see him again. Surprise! He was the pilot of her flight. He gives her tickets, and she follows him around the world to exotic places. A part of Kendall wanted to be the one to finally ground the playboy pilot.
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They said you can't take your money with you when you die. What if they were wrong? Srinath Adiga's timely satire explores the pitfalls of modern capitalism and the dangerous power of myth. Hong Kong, 2002. A stock market trader desperate to pay off a gangster debt invents a scam: Afterlife Dollars. A product inspired by an ancient Chinese custom that allows people to buy their way into heaven. It's the beginning of a dizzying chain reaction that...
30) Too many dogs
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"Eva and Carmen want spending money for ice cream at Chill. They want to treat their friends. They want to do more things with their free time than the money they get from their parents allows. But their parents tell them to think of a way to earn it themselves, because they won't waste their cash on extras. So the girls come up with a plan to make extra cash over the summer. But they don't realize how hard having a job can be"--Publisher.
31) Mr. Stingy
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Mr. Men series volume 19
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A wizard turns all of Mr. Stingy's money into potatoes to teach him a lesson.
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Matthew Martin books volume 4
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Eleven-year-old Matthew, trying desperately to earn enough to buy a coveted computer program, learns the importance of money and eventually starts his own business. Sequel to "Earth to Matthew."
35) Millions
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After their mother dies, two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it.
36) The money tree
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In summer the leaves on the strange tree growing in Miss McGillicuddy's yard are harvested by many people, but when Miss McGillicuddy thinks about needing firewood for the winter, she realizes the tree may have another use.
37) The purse
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After spending her money on a purse, Katie is now faced with the problem of getting some money to put into it.
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Choose your own adventure volume 98
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The reader's decisions control the course of what happens when a boy finds a satchel filled with a million dollars.